enthusiasm in Mexico. Money was freely subscribed to build another vessel, to be also called the Guerrero.[1]
Notwithstanding this misfortune, the Bravo and Hermon continued their cruise for some time; and it is asserted that the latter captured an armed schooner.[2]
Privateers were fitted out to prey upon Spanish commerce, and schemes to prosecute this kind of warfare were contemplated as late as 1831.[3] Nothing was effected, however. In 1825 the remnant of the Spanish navy in the Pacific Ocean fell into the possession of Mexico. The ship of the line Asia and the brig Constante escaped from Callao when that place was surrendered to the patriot forces of Colombia. On their way to Manila the crews mutinied, landed their chief officers in the Marianas Islands, and then brought the vessels to Monterey in California, already under the republican flag, where they were given up to Governor Luis Antonio Argüello.[4]
- ↑ What became of those funds is unknown; 'las desgracias de cuanto tenia el nombre de Guerrero comenzaron á ser fatídicas.' Tornel, Breve Reseña Hist., 270-3. The widows and orphans of the slain on the brig were pensioned. Dublan and Lozano, Legis. Mex., ii. 65-6.
- ↑ The Mexican navy being disabled in 1829, Commodore Porter retired and went back to his home in Pennsylvania. President Guerrero, on the 14th of August, conveyed to him the warm thanks of the Mexican nation for his valuable services. Niles' Reg., xxxvii. 119. While the commodore and his friend Doctor Boardman were on their way to the city of Mexico in May 1829, they were assailed by three armed bandits. The commodore shot the chief dead, upon which the other two fled. The doctor received a sabre-wound in his left arm. Id., xxxvi. 381.
- ↑ Cor. Fed. Mex., 1828, Aug. 1. General Basadre took out 25 or 30 letters of marque issued by President Guerrero, and when he had already fitted out five vessels to attack the Spanish convoy taking silver to Spain, the British admiral at Jamaica under the supposition, it is presumed, that the letters were apocryphal, gave orders to arrest and treat as a pirate a 'certain Basadre.' Alaman, Proceso, 39; Id., Defensa, 81.
- ↑ Alaman, Hist. Mej., v. 819, says the surrender took place in Acapulco, which is a mistake; they were taken there from Monterey by officers in the Mexican service. Full particulars on this episode are given in Hist. Cal., ii. this series.
The following authorities have been consulted in writing the foregoing chapters: Mex., Acta Constitut., 1-12; Id., Diario Congr. Constituy., ii. 680-98; Id., Col. Constituciones, i. 1-101, 320-473, ii. 66-151, 294-368, iii. 165-235, 328, 403-84; Id., Col. Leyes, Ord. y Dec., ii. 89-207, and iii. 1-163, passim; Id., Col. Leyes Fund., 116-64; Id., Col. Leyes y Dec., 1844-6, 414–20; 1847, 35-8, 76-153; Id., Col. Leyes, 1829-30, 33-46, 53-85, 90, 151; Id., Col.
